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934784

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish each defence procurement exercise his Department has exempted from international competition under Article 346 of the Treaties on the Functioning of the European Union since August 2011.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>All information and records related to these exemptions are sensitive and classified. The information requested cannot be provided as excessive efforts must be applied by the Ministry of Defence to cleanse sensitive data from these records in order to publish the information openly and therefore information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 09/07/2018 15:59:55 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

934786

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State’s letter to the Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee, on the procurement of Fleet Solid Support ships, dated 29 May 2018, what assessment has he made of the compatibility of the Korean Development Bank’s Ocean Value-Up Fund with EU state aid rules.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>State aid is generally prohibited under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, apart from under a small number of specific exemptions stipulated by legislation. For state aid to be deemed illegal it must meet clearly defined criteria.</p><p>The Korean Development Bank's Ocean Value-Up Fund is designed to assist small and medium sized shipping companies in placing orders for new vessels and the purchase of used ones. It is not available to ship construction yards and does not provide support for the construction in South Korean shipyards of vessels procured by third parties.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 09/07/2018 16:01:31 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

934787

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State’s letter to the Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee, on the procurement of Fleet Solid Support ships dated 29 May 2018, whether the preservation of industrial capability can be classified to be a national security interest for the purpose of invoking Article 346 exemptions.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Preserving industrial capability can be used as a measure to protect a nation's security interests under the Article 346 exemption in certain circumstances. For example, there is a requirement to protect our freedom of action to design, integrate and build Royal Navy warships, as this is critical to national security. All procurement decisions are still subject to value for money considerations.</p><p>In the case of the Fleet Solid Support ships, the Article 346 exemption does not apply, because, as outlined in the 29 May 2018 letter to the Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee, the ships are not deemed to be warships and there is no national security interest in limiting the competition to UK companies.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 09/07/2018 16:02:21 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

934788

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Patrol Craft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department classifies River-class Offshore Patrol Vessels as warships.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Shipbuilding Strategy (paragraph 92) defines Royal Navy Warships as destroyers, frigates and aircraft carriers. For the purposes of shipbuilding, all other naval ships are not classified as such.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 09/07/2018 16:28:21 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

934789

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a decision to restrict the competition for the procurement of Fleet Solid Support ships to UK companies would result in compensation costs to non-UK companies that have taken part in the market engagement process.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Fleet Solid Support ships market engagement process was conducted on a 'without commitment' basis, so there are no grounds on which a party could claim compensation.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 09/07/2018 16:28:58 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

931140

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	AWACS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to hold an industry day for potential bidders interested in his Department's programme to replace the RAF's current fleet of Boeing E-3D Sentry Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	157076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 recognised the need to invest in and sustain the RAF's Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) capability to at least 2035. As yet the procurement strategy has not been determined.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 28/06/2018 14:52:04 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

926676

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department calculates estimated costs to the public purse for running bidding competitions.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	154611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not estimate the cost of running bidding competitions. Associated costs to the MOD are usually met from within the programme plan.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb grouped question UIN 154612 question first answered 21/06/2018 15:37:38 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

926677

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated costs were associated with running bidding competitions for each of the programmes in the current Equipment Plan.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	154612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not estimate the cost of running bidding competitions. Associated costs to the MOD are usually met from within the programme plan.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb grouped question UIN 154611 question first answered 21/06/2018 15:37:38 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

926679

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel will participate in the key NATO and allied exercises (a) Ramstein Alloy 18-2, (b) Dynamic, (c) Brilliant Jump, (d) Trident Junture 2018, (e) EADRCC Consequence Management Field Exercise SRBIJA 2018, (f) Anakonda, (g) Cyber Coalition and (h) NATO-EU Parallel and Coordinated Exercise (PACE 18).
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	154613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>UK Armed Forces are participating only in Trident Juncture. I refer the hon. member to the answer I gave him to Question 153213 on 18 June 2018.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/06/2018 15:29:55 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood attachment 1 file name 20180618_153213_NATO_Joint_Exercises (2).docx title 153213 - NATO: Joint Exercises previous answer version 65062 answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

924715

registered interest
date	15/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the support cost is for each radar per year of the (a) BAE Systems and (b) Lockheed Martin long range air defence radar support contracts; and what the reasons are for the difference in those costs.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	154152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a breakdown or comparison of support costs for each individual radar. This is because each support contract is negotiated on an individual basis, taking account of varying factors; such as the number and age of the radar systems, their location, the scope of support provided, and the length of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 20/06/2018 15:01:00 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones